"What seemed at first a satirical cover transformed into a full-blown middle-eastern version, recorded with oud player Yaniv Taichmann and percussionist Ori Dekel," says the duo. "Video made possible thanks to the donations we received through a successful Kickstarter campaign!"

I was about to buy the song on iTunes, then I remembered the Palestinian civil society’s call for boycotts of Israeli cultural products if they do not explicitly criticize the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories… http://www.bdsmovement.net/

Unfortunately, the Rotem Shefy and Leat Sabbah don’t even mention the Palestinian influence on this piece, even though it’s much truer than the vague “middle eastern” influence they mention.

Try living as a Jew in a Muslim Arab country for a while before making that claim. There’s good REASON why Jews got the hell out of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, et cetera and came to Israel. The mapping of “oppressor” and “oppressed” is not nearly as neat as you claim.